So the first SAT of the 2011 – 2012 academic year has come and gone and as usual it was full of words ranging from the commonplace (longevity) to the esoteric (recondite). We sent in our teachers to check it out and here are some of the words we remember. We’ve taken words from the reading passages as well as the Sentence Completions. Keep in mind that the SAT doesn’t simply tests random words, it tests words that are used in “well-written college level texts.” If you are taking the SAT in the next year, if you are planning to go to college, if you plan to read well-written adult texts, you should know these words! So get out your flashcards and hang on to your hats because here we go:

alleviate

fickleness

exuberance

blundering

eschewing

subverting

inculcating

stoicism

acrimonious

beguiling

melancholy

mercurial

officious

braggart

caustic

flippant

vehement

sanguine

resigned

admonish

resuscitate

maudlin

maladroit

sophistry

beguile

quixotic

pedestrian

lavish

juxtaposition

ancillary

marginalized

edify

gibbering

jubilation

propagate

gestate

exacerbate

recondite

hackneyed

fallacious

ubiquity

veracity

oratory

admonition

ameliorate

archeologist

longevity

digression

compliant

resolute

cunning

collaborate

corroborate

jocular

fervid

inept

ineptitude

bushwhacking

foolhardy

killjoy

cocksure

succor

empiricism

rationalism

Take this list of words and get started studying today! Also since you’re already online you should head over to either FreeRice or our new favorite vocab site Word Dynamo for great interactive vocab learning tools.

And of course when you are ready for SAT preparation come check us out at a free sample class!